Rural women in S China turn desert into oasis

STORY: Rural women in S China turn desert into oasis DATELINE: March 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:28 LOCATION: HAIKOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Tao Fengjiao and trees 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): TAO FENGJIAO, Villager in Hainan 3. various of Tao at a museum introducing tree planting efforts 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): TAO FENGJIAO, Villager in Hainan 5. various of Tao and other villagers planting trees STORYLINE: Tao Fengjiao, a 63-year-old villager in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province, has been devoted to tree planting around Qizi Bay along with her fellow female villagers. Over the past three decades, they planted 5.88 million casuarina trees to fend off the incursion of the coastal desert. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): TAO FENGJIAO, Villager in Hainan "Here used to be a desert, but now it has been turned into an oasis." The bay was once a desert without any living plants. Whenever a typhoon landed, the sand was all over the sky, sometimes posing lethal threats to l